Synonyms:
arrangement, arranging, transcription
Meaning: the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
Usage examples
Mash through a colander and heap lightly on a platter, arranging broiled chops around the puree.
He paused, and with a glance of apology began arranging forks and glasses before him on the cloth.
As I was occupied in fixing the boat and arranging the sails, several people crowded towards the spot.
She requested to have the book of the play; but Elinor, engaged in arranging the entrances and exits, did not heed her.
They had set us to carrying a great accumulation of Maharan literature from one apartment to another, and there arranging it upon shelves.
All down the long brown seats members were shifting and arranging themselves more decorously, uncrossing their legs, slipping their hats beneath the leather fringes.
On this evening it was ten o'clock before the gentlemen came into the drawing-room, and then Lord Rufford's time was spent in arranging the party for the meet on Monday.
Joan shook back her light fluffy hair, looking rather taken aback for an instant, as Marcia emerged from the closet, where she had been invisible, arranging a rack of shoes.
So soon as their visitor had passed, the observant warriors fell back from the entrance, and arranging themselves about him, they seemed patiently to await the moment when it might comport with the dignity of the stranger to speak.
Veneering launching himself upon this trustee as his oldest friend (which makes seven, Twemlow thought), and confidentially retiring with him into the conservatory, it is understood that Veneering is his co-trustee, and that they are arranging about the fortune.